1. Introduction to: World war I the Holocaust World War II

2. How did it all begin??
Archduke Franz Ferdinand:  He was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire his assassination by a Serbian terrorist group, the Black Hand, on 28 June 1914 sparked the First World War. The assassination provided Austria-Hungary with an excuse to take action against Serbia.
France, Great Britain, and Russia
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire

3. What ends WW1?
The Treaty of Versailles

4. The Rise of the Nazi Party
World War I ends in 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles.
Germany becomes humiliated with the ‘laws’ put upon the country by the Treaty of Versailles:
Nearly half of its conquered land was redistributed
German army could not have more than 100,000 men and NO tanks
Germany could not have an air force, and its navy was limited (couldn’t even have submarines!)
Germany even had to admit full responsibility for starting the war as well as pay reparations

5. The Rise Continued…
Nazi Party begins in 1919 as a gang of unemployed soldiers who blamed losing WWI on Jews and Communists.
Adolf Hitler joins the Nazis and rises to power because of his powerfully captivating speeches and impressive leadership skills

6. Nazification and the Start of War
Hitler goes against the Treaty of Versailles and starts to re-arm its army. At the same time, he makes peace talks with neighboring countries as a front.
Hitler begins an aggressive search for more land to stretch his power (Britain, France, and Russia allow Germany to take Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia to avoid another war)
World War II officially begins September 1, 1939 when the Nazi party invades Poland

7. Timeline of Holocaust Events
WWI
Rise of the Nazi Party
Nazification and the Start of War
The Ghettos
The Camps
Resistance
Rescue and Liberation
The Aftermath

8. During World War II, the Nazi party of Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, systematically killed more than 6 million people. What does systematically mean?

9. Definitions
Systematically: attention to detail involving a system, method, or plan.
Genocide: the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Holocaust: the genocide of European Jews, the disabled, Gypsies, criminals, homosexuals, and other groups by Nazis
during World War II
Allied: countries that went against the Germany and the Axis powers (like Britain and the United States).
Axis: countries that sided with Germany and Hitler.

10. The Ghettos
Ghettos were poor sections of cities, surrounded by barbed wire and guards where Jewish residents were forced to move when Hitler came to power.
In 1933, over 9 million Jews lived in Europe (1.7% of the total population)
Ghettos were not a “Hitler-invention”.
Hitler’s ghettos were the first step along the way to the “Final Solution”

11. The Camps
The Nazi party used concentration, forced labor, extermination, transit, and prisoner of war camps throughout the war; all of which had horrible living conditions
Some of those imprisoned include: Jews, homosexuals, clergymen, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, criminals, POWs, and those opposed to Nazism

12. The Camps
There were 6 death or extermination camps in Poland (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Lublin, and Chelmno)
Terezin held mostly children
15,000 children went through this camp; only 132 survived

13. D-Day
Began on June 6, 1944.
The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men.


“After years of meticulous planning and seemingly endless training, for the Allied Forces, it all came down to this: The boat ramp goes down, then jump, swim, run, and crawl to the cliffs. Many of the first young men (most not yet 20 years old) entered the surf carrying eighty pounds of equipment. They faced over 200 yards of beach before reaching the first natural feature offering any protection” (D-Day Overview).

14. Resistance and Liberation
Resistance took many forms (armed and unarmed)
Allied troops stumble upon the camps
General Eisenhower insisted on documenting what the troops found in order to inform future generations
Allied forces made neighboring people look at what they had lived next to for years

15. End of the wWII
WWII ended in 1945 when the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.
This was the first use of nuclear warfare in a war:
Little Boy and Fat Man
A-bomb and H-bomb

16. Hitler's Body
April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva killed themselves and order Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels to burn their body. After burning their bodies Goebbels later committed suicide.

17. Aftermath
After the war ended, there were two major issues to be resolved
Punishment for the terrible deeds of party leaders
Re-locating the people who lost their homes during war
The United Nations assisted in finding homes for those displaced during the war
The Nuremberg Trials provided a place to try some of the most infamous members of the Nazi Party

18. WHAT Happened to the Nazis after the war??
They were outlawed and many of the top officials were convicted of war crimes related to the massive number of murders.
Nuremburg Trials

19. References http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm